Banca Popolare di Verona

Banca Popolare di Verona (BPV) was an Italian bank established in June 1867. It no longer operates under its own name; its business passed to the group that is today Gruppo Banco BPM, whose historical archive lists Banca Popolare di Verona among the institutions that became part of the group over time. Banca Popolare di Verona was the first Italian bank which purchased another Italian bank (Banco S.Geminiano e S.Prospero di Modena) in 1993. It also acquired Credito Bergamasco in 1997 and merged with Banca Popolare di Novara in 2002. In 2007, Banco Popolare di Verona e Novara merged with Banca Popolare Italiana to form Banco Popolare Group. The meaning of "popular" is that every shareholder who has more than 150 shares can vote during the shareholders' meeting.

Former head office address:
Banca Popolare di Verona
Piazza Nogara, Verona
Website: www.bancobpm.it (Banco BPM group). The bancobpmspa.com address given previously no longer hosts a banking site and redirects to a Banco BPM "domain not available" placeholder page.

14 September 2010
New executive management team in Banca Popolare di Verona

Banco Popolare announced the new management team of Banca Popolare di Verona – S.Geminiano e S.Prospero Spa, with one single chief officer to head the board and replace both the managing director Franco Baronio and the General manager Cristiano Carrus. For Franco Baronio it is a consensual termination of employment with the Group – regulated by a temporary contract – and in fact, owing to his well acknowledged professional qualities, he shall continue to serve as a Director in associates of Gruppo Banco Popolare like Agos, Avipop, Popolare Vita and Istituto Centrale Banche Popolari. Cristiano Carrus shall retain an important role within Banco Popolare, as general manager of the subsidiary Aletti Suisse in Lugano.

Current status

Banco Popolare, into which Banca Popolare di Verona was absorbed, combined with Banca Popolare di Milano on 1 January 2017 to form Banco BPM. Banco BPM's group profile, last updated 31 December 2025, describes the group's networks as the Azimut BANK and Banca Aletti branch networks together with Banca Akros and Webank, and makes no reference to Banca Popolare di Verona, Banca Popolare di Novara or Credito Bergamasco. The management announcement above dates from September 2010 and is retained as a historical record.